The most interesting tweet of the afternoon came not from the White House or the House leadership but from a man with a foot in both camps — former Speaker turned Trump advisor Newt Gingrich, who correctly finds it insane and self-destructive to make the party vote on a deeply unpopular bill that’s unlikely to pass. Vote yes and Democrats will use it against you. Vote no and you humiliate Trump.

Why would you schedule a vote on a bill that is at 17% approval? Have we forgotten everything Reagan taught us?

Three days ago he was cheering the bill on and recommending that every House Republican vote yes. Oh well. The Upshot’s whip count has 33 Republicans as firm no’s, nine leaning no, and 46 undecided. The bill can only afford to lose 22 or it’ll fail. Anything can happen, but the fact that the White House and Congress are already moving to the recriminations stage tells you how this is likely to go:

That’ll be a nice consolation prize for Trump, Bannon, and their base if it happens. Epic failure in repealing ObamaCare in return for Paul Ryan’s scalp? As long as a leading “globalist” goes down, it was all worth it.

Update: The bill is on ice. The House is in recess. No vote.

President Trump just called me. Still on phone."We just pulled it," he tells me.